Both the physical features and behaviour of human beings are often likened to the looks and activities of animals, often to berate both species and occasionally bestowing adoration for the animals for their superior features. The vision of the eagle sighting its prey on the ground while flying at dizzy heights in the sky, describing…

The issue of possession of wealth conspicuously disproportionate to income, particularly by many resorting to unlawful means which figured in the columns of dailies for a while in recent past triggering people at large to talk excitedly and anticipate measures to channelise the booty for the benefit of society seems to have got sidelined amidst…

The country’s judiciary has just tended to be featured in the media to an unprecedented extent, mostly for all wrong reasons. While the cancer of corruption in the circle of judges from the lowest courts across the country to the highest court namely the Supreme Court of India is talked about publicly in hushed tones,…

Economic slowdown in the country is being talked about in tones of despair in some camps of the knowledgeable and voices of hope from the top brass in the Government. Public memory is seen as short-lived but not short enough to recall the incumbent Government at the Centre hopeful of eight percent higher growth of…

Reining in the sections and outfits across the country indulging in acts disrupting orderly life totally disregarding the land’s laws seems to have gone out of hands of governments both at the Centre and in the States somewhat like in the days past as the then sub-continent erupted against colonial rule that ended in 1947….

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Founder Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887-1971) in one of his messages made a brief reference to his life during student days. He disclosed that his major diet that sustained him for most part of the day was the humble Khichdi, adding that he prepared the dish himself with the remark that anybody could…

Time-honoured channel of reaching the literati with information they seek and desire that the world knows as media, particularly dailies seems to have donned a new avatar, that is also familiar to a growing number of people embracing digital technology as social media. Chip-based devices are taking birth with versatile features being embedded in them…

Both the citizens of the land and the civil servants of the executive wing in administration are required to comply with the stipulations stated in the Constitution as well as the Acts that spell the rules and regulations enacted as amendments in order to enable the diaspora to live orderly life, particularly in a democratic…

Despite discord in ideologies and agendas, forming the so-called coalition Governments, often inviting the adjective unholy, by various otherwise warring political parties both at the Centre and in the States as well as Union Territories seems to be the order of our times, more as a norm than exception, all for making merry with power…

Freedom of Speech and freedom of the Press are different kettles of fish, the major and the most commonly noticed difference being the latter has a regulator in the body Press Council of India while the former is more glorified as a Constitutional provision than complied with by the citizens, the so-called rationalists taking fascination…